DSL
Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Just phoned BT to see what I could get for my unlimited broadband, presently paying £17 or so a month as had to upgrade mid 12 months.  Renewed at £6.85 a month (line rental paid annually up front), not too bad for unlimited. 
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 13th Dec 2014 1:28 pm |
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Discogaz
Member Since: 17 Mar 2014
Location: Bracknell
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I just wish Openreach would get their finger out. Fibre has been at the exchange for almost 3 years and I'm still waiting for it to get to the nearest cabinet - The joys of 2.1mb download.
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| 13th Dec 2014 1:33 pm |
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MarkOne
Member Since: 23 Jul 2011
Location: County Antrim
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That's very good if you getting that unlimited, as BT like to limit you for that kind of money.
Openreach as to be the slowest organisation when it comes to hooking up the fibre optic, theres tiny villages in the middle nowhere in Northern Ireland has it and major towns without.
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| 13th Dec 2014 1:43 pm |
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DSL
Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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She said the magic word "unlimited" 3 times. I'm sure there is a limit in reality, such as if they find you're hosting ebay in your spare time, but for streaming NowTV it's enough for the 7 gig or do a day. 
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| 13th Dec 2014 2:50 pm |
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Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
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Just ring up every year and say you are leaving and they will do a deal, I've been paying 50% of my BB bill for the last 3 years  I'm on the unlimited broadband with them and I've used up to nearly 200GB's of downloads a month and never been warned about my usage
Our exchange has just been enabled on 1st December but as yet we can't order fibre broadband  Cheers Ian
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| 13th Dec 2014 2:57 pm |
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Bigcol66
Member Since: 28 Jul 2010
Location: Welshpool, Powys
Posts: 775
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I went 1gb over my 10gb limit and got charged £5.30 for the pleasure 
Think I need to threaten to leave them trouble is I have just paid up front for a years line rental.
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| 13th Dec 2014 5:44 pm |
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DSL
Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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That was the problem we had, once we saw how much data NowTV used, especially with movies. Upgraded cheaply to 40gb/month out of 12 month contract and later realised that would only last bit over a week so had to go to unlimited. Then had to pay "list" price. Happy to be paying new price and wondering if I can get the savings to upgrade my iDog&bone.
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| 13th Dec 2014 5:53 pm |
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DigitalJunior
Member Since: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 4401
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We are paying SKY £10 for unlimited 40mb BB and £7.50 line rental.
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| 13th Dec 2014 7:52 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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I'm on Talk Talk and have unlimited free BB.
The only problem is my line speed average is 2.6mb.
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| 14th Dec 2014 10:21 am |
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UNG
Member Since: 20 Jun 2008
Location: Lancs
Posts: 764
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MarkOne wrote:Openreach as to be the slowest organisation when it comes to hooking up the fibre optic, theres tiny villages in the middle nowhere in Northern Ireland has it and major towns without.
It could be the jobsworth's at your local council the St Helens exchange has been fibre enabled for a good while but the council and their street works policies means the roll out has been delayed by something like 2 years but it could be longer, and I believe the expected live date is now mid 2015. Talking to my brother who works for BT he told me that BT threatened the council they would stop the fibre installation and deploy it elsewhere if the council carried on with their targeting of BT, the councils street works permit scheme and fines means it is difficult to repair the existing network let alone install fibre in the St Helens area with some repairs taking days to sort because a permit or permits are required to avoid being fined. So it may not be Openreach that is the problem "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag'em down to your level. It's cheaper".
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| 14th Dec 2014 10:59 am |
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stew 46
Member Since: 01 Dec 2011
Location: cornwall
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Have been with talk talk for few years but there cost have gone up up and up so we move back to BT this tue coming -------------------------------------------------
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| 14th Dec 2014 11:04 am |
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MarkOne
Member Since: 23 Jul 2011
Location: County Antrim
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digitaljunior wrote:We are paying SKY £10 for unlimited 40mb BB and £7.50 line rental.
My Sky broadband costs me £3.75 per month and upfront 12 months line rental £140.
I do have sky, maybe you haven't £10 seem expensive. And mine has no limit.
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| 14th Dec 2014 11:04 am |
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kp
Member Since: 27 May 2011
Location: Sticking the Ex back in the skanks bin
Posts: 2824
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Sky Fibre for about 18months now, £6/month and £9 for the line rental, although i have a good few packages with them that are also discounted by around 40% but no sports or movies cack  FFRR Owner, very nearly became a D3 owner 
Test piloted a new D4 XS SDV6.. Gone and being forgotten i hope!!
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| 14th Dec 2014 3:18 pm |
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Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
Posts: 1418
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Discogaz wrote:I just wish Openreach would get their finger out. Fibre has been at the exchange for almost 3 years and I'm still waiting for it to get to the nearest cabinet - The joys of 2.1mb download.
You lucky  I only get half that.
Same story though, exchange was upgraded to fibre back in July but our cabinet is still waiting for Openreach to do something. They really are a shower of IMO
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| 14th Dec 2014 7:29 pm |
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Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
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UNG wrote:MarkOne wrote:Openreach as to be the slowest organisation when it comes to hooking up the fibre optic, theres tiny villages in the middle nowhere in Northern Ireland has it and major towns without.
It could be the jobsworth's at your local council the St Helens exchange has been fibre enabled for a good while but the council and their street works policies means the roll out has been delayed by something like 2 years but it could be longer, and I believe the expected live date is now mid 2015. Talking to my brother who works for BT he told me that BT threatened the council they would stop the fibre installation and deploy it elsewhere if the council carried on with their targeting of BT, the councils street works permit scheme and fines means it is difficult to repair the existing network let alone install fibre in the St Helens area with some repairs taking days to sort because a permit or permits are required to avoid being fined. So it may not be Openreach that is the problem
Part of the problem is that Openreach (oe Beyondreach as our ISP's support desk calls them ) just refuse to communicate - not just with us poor end users but with the ISPs. SO we don't know if they have an excuse or not.
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| 14th Dec 2014 7:32 pm |
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